Thanksgiving

Well it is almost Thanksgiving and boy am I glad for it because I am in need of a break. Football is now over after our beat down at the hands of Shiloh Christian last week. Being able to recruit sure is nice I can tell you that. However, now that football is over my work week has just been cut in half. No more working till 8 or 9 at night and then going home and doing school work now I just have to do school work. I also coach track but thats not untill after Christmas break and its not nearly the hours that football is.

Book Review- "" The Last Lecture"

" The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch is a very inspiring book. I give it 5 stars. This book is about Randy Pausch who is a professon at Carnige Mellon University and he founds out that he has termonial cancer. He is asked to give a last lecture that most universities do but for him its different because it will actually be his last lecture.

The main goals of the books is for Randy Pausch to leave his final thoughts on his life and what he was able to accompolish. He also hopes that it can be used as a road map for his 3 small children who will probably have no recollection of him. He also talks about in the book a good bit about how he and his wife are spending their final months together and what she will do when he's gone. This is a very emotional book that goes in depth with a man who is living his last days. I believe that it is a must read.

PLAYOFF GAME TONIGHT!!!

Playoff game tonight McGehee Owls vs Osceola Seminoles at Rex Denton Stadium in McGehee Ar anyone in the area come out tonight and watch a great game.

Week 11

Man if feels awesome to be playing football in week 11 and for those of you who don't understand what that means it means we made the playoffs. This is McGehee's first home playoff game in ten years. Its pretty awesome to see all the hard work payoff. A lot of people complain about how much work teaching is and it is a lot of work but people have no idea about work until they coach. Today is Sunday and I went into work at 2pm and left at 11pm. But there isn't anything in the world that I would rather be doing.

New Week

Well I took my first day off from school this last monday. I woke up about 4 am with a really bad headache and it seems like it hasn't went away yet. My sub didn't leave me any info on my classes but I know two of my desks were torn up when I got back. So id imagaine she had a pretty rough time or just let them do whatever they wanted. Also, yesterday was my first parent teacher conference I had 16 parents out of about 90 kids show up. It was actually a little more than I expected would show up. I didn't have a lot of great reports to give either. My students just don't want to do their notebook. But hoping now that some of my parents see how easy it is they will step in and make sure it gets done.

New Week

Well its the beginning of a new week and im excited about it. The football team picked up a big win friday night and it puts us at 3-1 in conference play so we still control our own destiny for the most part. And in football thats really all you can ask for. The nine weeks ended friday and the new nine weeks starts wednesday so that means my first parent teacher conference is right around the corner. It make me kinda nervous because I do have a fair amount of students flunking my class but its mainly because they dont turn in assignments so they get zero's. I kept telling them they have something due and they don't turn it in. I don't know what else to do.

Senior Skip day

Doesn't everyone love senior skip day? Im kinda new to this since we didn't do this in high school but literally no seniors showed up yesterday. However, I have very few seniors in class so it didn't really effect me untill football practice when half of our senior football players didn't show up for practice. It really bothers me when my students don't put in a quarter of the effort that I do. In the classroom I make study guides and give a note outline and I find them on the floor or stuck in a book all the time and that tends to bother me a lot. It really bothers me when it is carried over to football or any other extra activity because they don't have to be there if they don't want to. In my History classes most of my students don't like History and don't care about it so I can understand to a certain extent when they leave stuff carlessly laying around. I just need to do a better job of getting them involved with what I am teacing. But with football there should be no me trying to get them involved or into it. We have a huge game this week and they think they can just take off a day its ridiculous. And the sad thing is if they treat the athletics like that then how do they treat their school work?